In “The Boys on the Bus,” Timothy Crouse’s fabled book about the press and the 1972 presidential campaign, Jim Naughton was the quiet and contemplative New York Times reporter who toiled alongside the outsized and flamboyant Johnny Apple.

After he left The Times 1977, Naughton became known to another two
generations of journalists as a manager and leader — first as a top
editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer in its ascent to becoming one of the
country’s great papers, and later as president of the Poynter
Institute.